Re: Stricter implicit conversions between vectors, revised patch

[Mark Shinwell <shinwell@codesourcery.com>]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> [...] why __builtin_altivec_vcmpgefp does not return a 
> vector bool int.

Ah, so that applies for vcmpgefp as well, ok.

> So, I think your patch is correct, except that you also have to change 
> the corresponding C++ code, which is quite wrong (predicates are defined 
> as templates, and this has let a wrong name through):
> 
>  __altivec_binary_pred(vec_cmple,
> -  __builtin_altivec_cmpge (a2, a1))
> +  __builtin_vec_cmpge (a2, a1))

I did wonder about that one, but failed to mention it in the mail :-)
Will fix.

>> This patch exhibits no changes in testsuite results with all default
>> languages on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.  I haven't quite reached this
>> on powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu but I think the only outstanding problem
>> is due to this vcmpgefp issue.
> 
> What is this problem?

Given what you say, I believe there is no problem.  I'll run the testsuite
again; it looks like we are finally there.

Thanks,
Mark